Hello Everyone,
I did a check of the material in or yard for seam weld quality. The first place I looked was at some HSS square tubing that we had rolled for a job. The reason behind this was if we had any bad seams it would surely be easy to spot on this material after rolling. While doing this inspection I noticed that most had the seam on the bottom side of the radius. However others had the seam to one side or the other as well as the top. This brought the question to mind of where should the seam be located for the best outcome, or does it even matter? I was thinking that in the past I had heard something about the placement of the seam when rolling but it has been quite some time ago. I will attach a sketch of the part in question.
BTW all seams on this material looked good, and was supplied by a differant vendor than the one we had issues with.
Thanks in advance,
John